need to read the contents of custom meta tag using only vbscript asp
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I have ASP web pages that have a custom meta tag. I am using an include to read the value of that tag and place it into a variable.
I previously used a javascript to do it, using:
someVariable = document.getElementsByTagN
Now I need to replace it with a classic ASP VBScript equivalent. To clarify, I already tried essentially the same code using ASP and got the following error:
Microsoft VBScript runtime error '800a01a8'
Object required: 'document'
Thanks in advance for the help!
I have ASP web pages that have a custom meta tag. I am using an include to read the value of that tag and place it into a variable.
I previously used a javascript to do it, using:
someVariable = document.getElementsByTagN
Now I need to replace it with a classic ASP VBScript equivalent. To clarify, I already tried essentially the same code using ASP and got the following error:
Microsoft VBScript runtime error '800a01a8'
Object required: 'document'
Thanks in advance for the help!
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The custom meta tag is placed manually on each page. It doesn't exist in any other ASP variable or datasource. So I'm guessing the thing to do is place the page (or preferably just the ) into a variable and then search the variable for that particular meta tag and its value?
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Alternately, are there other ways / tools to access the HTML DOM from a server-side script?
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I'm glad I could help. Thanks for the grade, the points and the fun question.
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The document reference doesn't mean anything because that is part of the DOM and client side. ASP is run on the server.
How does ASP write that tag and part of the page? Do you have to get the info on the same script page? Unless the ASP script stores that part of the html in some ASP variable there is no way for the same script/page to get that info. Another ASP page could "read" the html and get it with something like ASPTear or the Server.XMLHTTP object.
Let me know a little more about which script page and when and we might find a way to do this. However I am afraid you will be out of luck. Let me know if you have any questions or need more information.
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